Marion Roach Smith’s alternate sisterly reality, with Margaret Roach.

Hi, Sisters. It’s time to take a little break from TSP, regroup, and see where we’re at. In the interim, enjoy all the fabulous content. If you are looking for my memoir content, please come see me here, at my personal blog, where it’s all memoir, all the time. Enjoy. And keep in touch. Allbest, Marion

IT’S BEEN A great time for my irreverent little book on writing. Today I will be on the wonderful NPR show, Talk of the Nation. I’d love you to listen it, of course, though you can hear it again this evening via the wonders of digital recording. Want to know how? [click to continue…]

OH THOSE SISTERS of Downton Abbey. And how we love them. And miss them. Well, here’s a quick dose from an upcoming Vogue photo shoot. Enjoy it, sisters. It suggests that we’ve not seen the last of these girls. Not by a Ascot longshot.

HOW DID SHE know I was feeling frustrated and cranky about the way things are unfolding? How does that woman do it, month after month, year after year guiding us through her exquisite celestial navigation? Don’t know who I’m talking about? Have you read your July TSP horoscope? [click to continue…]

THE SISTER MOVIE genre just got one flick better. Oh, how I loved the film Caramel. And you will too, sisters. Gorgeous, intelligent and exotic, it’s the perfect summer fare for one of those nights when nothing will do but some women and a movie. Had one of those nights recently? [click to continue…]

FOR ALL TOO LONG I did not know that Saudi women had to buy their bras from men. And while those days are now nearly in the past, don’t for a second be fooled into thinking that this change came easily. Protests, boycotts, an online campaign, and finally, intervention from the king decreed that women in Saudi Arabia no longer have to talk cup size solely to men. Well, better late than never, I guess. [click to continue…]

THE MEMOIR PROJECT is the name of my new book. Accompanied by the subtitle, A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life, the book’s title reflects it contents – a little irreverent, while being very how-to about writing what you know. When it was time to give a title to the book, those words seemed to sum it up best. [click to continue…]

YOUNG ADULT FICTION. When a much-revered artist friend of TSP revealed that as her publication goal for 2011, we cheered, especially since that artist is the incomparable Sloane Tanen (seen above), whose work we simply adore. With that unique wit of hers, this could only go well. And it has. [click to continue…]

WHEN SISTERS HELP one another we all benefit. This was the feeling I had recently while cruising around, looking for some book promotion advice. I stumbled upon some, and came away with that unique and fabulous feeling I only get when I witness one woman helping out another, and have only to keep the good moving along to help some more. You know that feeling? I know you do. [click to continue…]

Who's Blogging Here?

'She Said, She Said' is both sides of the sister story. A digital dual memoir by TSP's oldest sisters, Marion Roach Smith, 52, with Margaret Roach, 54, it celebrates alternate realities, tenderly and yet bluntly illustrating the universal truth that no two siblings experience anything the same way. How to explain that truth? Nature? Nurture? It’s a little of both, and also neither. And here, under one virtual 'cover,' is what that looks like. Marion, a writing teacher, radio columnist and author, and Margaret, former editorial director of Martha Stewart Living turned blogger, don’t look, act or talk alike. Listen in, and watch what happens. And don't hesitate to interrupt; we're used to it.

WELL SAID
‘Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.’
—Louise Glück

Welcome to Our New Blog Network

First time here? Here's the idea: The Sister Project is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in friendship or in feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top on our homepage says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.